1. Reflection on Yali's Question

This question is controversial and there are different possible explanations. White Europeans came to control the modern world because they developed literate industrial societies with metal tools, while others were still nonliterate farming societies. Europeans were able to conquer using metal tools against people with wooden tools. It is possible that the cold climate that the Europeans lived in forced them to develop technologies to help them survive and therefore they were more advanced than the warmer climates societies. A lot of countries didn’t develop guns, germs, steel and other factors. Though, people of Eurasian dominated the modern world in wealth and power the Africans and other people threw off European colonial domination but they remained far behind in wealth and power. Countries exterminated by European colonialists were Australia, the Americas, and southernmost Africa. When the White Europeans came to the Americas, they had spread all kinds of diseases that killed many of the American, however when they came to Africa diseases such as malaria and yellow fever killed the Europeans. The reasons for the Europeans conquering other countries are still being studied and are not completely understood.